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Petrochori
As Delivered
Kalimera sas. I want to start this afternoon by thanking Deputy Minister Stefanis for giving us a lift up to Petrochori so we could observe this exercise and the final phase of the bilateral U.S.-Hellenic Army exercise IMMEDIATE RESPONSE/ CENTAUR 21 as part of DEFENDER-Europe 21.
Minister, you’ve been a fantastic friend, and so much of what we’ve accomplished was on display today, so thank you again.
I also want to acknowledge all of our partners from the Hellenic Armed Forces, especially Vice Admiral Drymousis, General Lalousis, General Choudeloudis, as well as the many other friends and allies who are here today. Thank you all for joining us this morning and for the transformative work that we have done together to reach this point.
Geoffrey Pyatt is one of the longest serving US ambassadors to Athens – his fifth anniversary is on 19 May – and his tenure has coincided with some of the more difficult moments in recent history from the country’s economic precariousness to Greek-Turkish tensions last summer that brought the two countries to the brink of a military clash at sea.
In a full-length interview with Marianna Kakaounakis at the annual Delphi Forum, Pyatt stressed the Biden administration’s intention to deepen bilateral strategic ties and that a visit by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Washington is on the cards, though at some as yet undetermined point in the future.